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American history is best served hot and there are lots of ways to warm up to it. At HFwH, we bring free streaming video, interactive presentations, and links to many other resources to bring history alive. Go a step beyond the social studies or history classroom and use all your senses to connect with American History through audio, video, and living history.

Personalize a google map and then share. No registering required

Map building game

These maps may be printed and copied for personal or classroom use.To request permission for other purposes please contact the Rights and Permissions Department. PDF format but may be opened in Photoshop Elements as an image for coloring and labeling.

an online application to design your own flag, either based on your "home", any country that "affected you" & countries of which you "dreamed of going", or simply based on strong symbols, colors & meaning.

Click the "Open KML" Link to view the tour in Google Earth

Lots of places to prepare for the GeoBee

How to use a wiki for the GeoBee

Highest lowest biggest smallest tallest deepest oldest youngest Continents Countries Cities Dependencies Deserts Islands Lakes Mountains Oceans Provinces Rivers Seas and more list by World Atlas

Geoquiz from BBC/PRI in text and audio format

A complete listing of all the World Wonders in a variety of categories

Can you identify all the continents, states, and provinces? Try GeoSpy and find out!

Book your flight and travel to the country of your choice. Start a journal (password protected) and add entries for the selected topics. Print your journal when done or return at another time by revisiting the country. Great for Foreign Language and Culture classes.

Our Jury System at Play The jury has reached a verdict! Justice by the People is a powerful new way to build your students’ language arts skills and understanding of civics. This national standards–based program, created by the Foundation of the American Board of Trial Advocates and Scholastic Inc., underscores the importance of the Sixth and Seventh Amendments to students in grades 5–8. This is an oustanding resource with all resources, including the interactive simulation, can be used online or downloaded.

Includes interactive Constitution, Constitutional Timeline, Fast Facts, Basic Governing Principle, Founding Documents, and a Kids section especially for elementary students. Play the interactive game:"Save the Bill of Rights", which focuses on finding the "lost ammendments". Grades 4-12

The thematic unit All Hands on Deck: Learning Adventures Aboard "Old Ironsides" uses USS CONSTITUTION as a vehicle to explore a wide range of disciplines including language arts, reading, math, science, art, and social studies. The content scope of the curriculum is wide and varied. Skills covered in the unit include critical thinking, making tables and diagrams, solving math problems and writing essays and poems. Life skills that stress the value of cooperation, persistence, creativity and ingenuity are also included. Activities organized for Grades k-12

The aim of this project is to produce a series of full-color booklets for children aged 8 to 11. The subjects will be appealing to kids, and the writing will be light and friendly. These booklets will be richly illustrated with photographs, diagrams, sketches, and original drawings. The texts will also follow a format, so that each booklet, while different, will also have certain common features. Completed books include the Solar System and The Elements. There is also a collaborative book in the works on World War II. This could be a worthwhile project for 8th grade students to contribute articles. An outline is available.

Interactive label the states map. Drag the state names before you run out of time

Topics: What is geography?,What is Geography? (5th grade),Five Themes of Geography,Themes of Geography,Five Themes of Geography - Iceland,Themes of Geography,Continents and Oceans,Maps,Maps, Map Making,Maps (zip), Lines, Maps, and Globes,Understanding Types of Maps,Basic Geography Skills (Game),The Earth's BIG Features,What are landforms?,Landforms - What Goes Up Must Come Down,Landforms (beautiful pictures of various landforms), Landforms, continents (ppt, jeopardy),Physical Features (lesson) & Game,Geography (2nd grade),Geography Terms (6th grade),Communities Are In Different Places,What is a Community? (3rd grade),Communities (2nd grade), Communities - Now and Then, Here and There, Geographies of Religion,PowerPoint Presentation Outline: Climate,Economic Geography,Cultural Geography, Architecture,Statues & Monuments,World Geography Questions,Regional Geography,Population,Physical Geography,Maps & Geographic Skills,Farming Techniques, Sub Saharan ,Sub-Saharan Africa,Australia,Geography of Australia (7th grade),Asia,East & South Asia,Russia & Central Asia ,Russia/Geography,Russia,North Africa (Rockingham),North Africa (Volstate),Europe (Rockingham), Europe (Volstate),The Geography of the United States, US States and Regions ppts,North America,South America, Latin America,Latin American Pictures,Latin America 3, Themes in World Geography (many ppts),World Regional Geography PowerPoints (lots)

Student illustrations of 24 different terms

Very nice site with basic information on a variety of topics for each state (history, geography, famous people, state page links, symbols and more. Appropriate for upper elementary through middle school. NO ADS!!

As the title implies, this site is a searchable archive of PDF images of old magazine articles. The majority is from the 20th century, although there are also entries from the 19th century. Because the articles are from magazines, they often include fantastic pictures that can illustrate fashion, culture and opinions of the time period. It's an eclectic mix of topics, with some emphasis on the early 20th century. In the Classroom: This is a fabulous primary document site packed with useful resources for social studies teachers. Because the entries are all in PDF format, each can be printed and copied for classroom list. According to the owner of the site, the information is all in the public domain and can be freely distributed. Entries are continually being added. For the serious researcher, there isn't always exact bibliographic information included with each entry for use in citations. However, for classroom use, or for use on interactive whiteboards, this archive is exceptionally useful... and it's FREE!

Quick way for students to create map markers with photos and descriptions then share via a link. No signup required.

brief history of the Champlain Valley, focused on Lake Champlain and its uses. It is by no means complete, and we are constantly adding to it as we increase our knowledge of this region, through our research and archaeological projects.

Archeology of an 18th Century Indian Village in North Carolina